ACTIVITIES REPORT
Partners' Institution:
Pixel Associazione
Project's period (from/to):
November 2007 - November 2009
WP concerned:
WP 5 - Inclusion of the ELS portal in the public training and education systems

Objectives of activities carried out:
Spread the knowledge of the ELS portal in the public training and education system

Description of activities carried out:
Elisabetta met Franca Gattini from the National Agency for the Development of School Autonomy on the 18th of April 2008 and presented the ELS Portal.
Fabrizio De Lorenzo during the ActivELP meeting that took place in Florence on the 16th of May 2008 had the possibility to speak with the Lilita Zmičerevska from the Public Service Language Centre in Riga (LT) and with Indra Odiņa from the University of Latvia. He offered the possibility to both of them to use the ELS Portal for the language learning in their country.

Outcomes:
The ELS Portal arose a great interest. Franca a Gattini decided to present the portal to the teachers she is contact with.
As far as the accreditation or official recognition for educational tools at regional and/or national level, in Italy in the 1999 after a long legislative process the public schools autonomy principle has been approved. This means that in Italy each public school is free to choose and personalise all the didactic programmes and curricula. In this context the formal agreement of a school and consequent adoption among the school’s didactic resources of a product, an online training course or any other educational tools can be considered as an inclusion among the educational resources of the public educational sector.

Evaluation of the work undertaken:
The promotion of the ELS portal in the education system is positive considering the interest showed by the people contacted